DNS: Adding custom HostGator domain to railway web app?

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I have deployed my web application on Railway Hosting Platform. I am trying to add a custom domain now and it’s failing.

This is the supposed domain that customer support said they have added the CNAME railway gave to me
http://forecastfaceoff.co/ when i open the domain on my browser it still shows hostgator default page and propagation time have passed over 72hrs

This is how railway said i should configure the domain
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This is what the customer support did in the cpanel
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when i visit the https://forecastfaceoff.co./
I get an Misdirected Request Error
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if i visit https://www.forecastfaceoff.co./

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The CNAME entries you’re showing are for http.forecastfaceoff.co and https.forecastfaceoff.co, not forecastfaceoff.co or www.forecastfaceoff.co.

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There is also another entry for www.forecastfaceoff.co, it’s three entries in total. Is that okay??

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Absolutely. My personal domain has about 20 CNAME entries in it by now.

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Okay that’s a relief that it can be more than one, so do I still need to keep waiting for propagation time? It’s really been a long time of over 72hrs

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I don’t even know if the CNAMEs where correctly entered, I can’t wrap my head around the issue.

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When I ping any of http.forecastfaceoff.co, https.forecastfaceoff.co, or www.forecastfaceoff.co, it resolves to 104.196.232.237 under the related name of forecast-faceoff-version-1-production.up.railway.app. Any of those names should be directing you to your site, assuming that’s the correct address.

However, if I try to ping forecastfaceoff.co, it resolves to 192.185.21.181 which reverse-resolves to a unifiedlayer.com. So you would not be able to access your site using that name.

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Does that mean that I should the domain name in railway from forecastfaceoff.co to www.forecastfaceoff.co or https://forecastfaceoff.co

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I don’t know anything about railway - I can’t offer any suggestions there.

However, I know that you can create another CNAME entry - this time for forecastfaceoff.co. (Or, more accurately, using the @ notation as you show in your first post.)

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Alright let me try that

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It’s working now after adding the new cname, thanks alot.

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